Kermit checksum mismatch

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:25:39AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 03:26:52PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 01:59:54PM -0600, Geoffrey T. Falk wrote:
> > > 
> > > boojum# cd /usr/ports/comms/kermit/
> > > boojum# make
> > > ===>  Extracting for kermit-8.0.208
> > > >> Checksum mismatch for cku208.tar.gz.
> > > Make sure the Makefile and distinfo file (/usr/ports/comms/kermit/distinfo)
> > > are up to date.  If you are absolutely sure you want to override this
> > > check, type "make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args]".
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > 
> > > Stop in /usr/ports/comms/kermit.
> > 
> > Re-fetch it.
> 
> Won't help.  If you go to the ftp-site and check manually you will find
> that cku208.tar.gz is just a symlink to cku209.tar.gz which presumably
> is a bit different.  I do not know why the cku208.tar.gz archives are
> not around (there are archives for several older versions of kermit at
> the ftp-site but not cku208.tar.gz) but it isn't.
> 
> I don't know what the difference is between 208 and 209, but
> considering that 208 is no longer available while several older
> releases are, I suspect it might some security problem.
> 
> The correct solution seems to be to upgrade the port to 209.

OK, please look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/50671

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